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Pages 486-487

Stabat Mater Dolorosa (“The Mother stood in woeful wise”)
Translation: Historic Roman Catholic Translation • 1599AD
Tune: “Stabat Mater” • 887

In the 1599AD Preface, Richard Verstegan says: “Notwithstanding the difficulty, these hymns have been so turned into English meter that they may be sung unto the same tunes in English that they bear in Latin.” For this particular translation, the harmonic rhythm must be that of Solesmes Abbey, generally known as the “Classical Solesmes Method.” See the following: (1) Daily Hymn Book (Westminster, 1949) p. 64, by Henri Potiron (d. 1972), Maître de Chapelle de la Basilique du Sacré Coeur et Professeur a l’Institut Grégorien; (2) Liber Cantualis Comitante Organo (Solesmes, 1981) p. 37, by Abbé Ferdinand Portier; (3) Accompaniment to the Music of Holy Week (Gregorian Institute of America, 1957) p. 83, by Dr. Eugene Lapierre, organist at Saint-Alphonse-d’Youville in Montréal.

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Pages 482-483

Stabat Mater Dolorosa (“At the Cross her station keeping”)
Also included in Latin: “Stábat Máter dolorósa”
Translation: Cento by Fr. Edward Caswall (d. 1878); Very Rev’d Dominic Aylward (d. 1872); Denis Florence MacCarthy (d. 1882); Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth (d. 1884); Aubrey Thomas de Vere (d. 1902); Fr. John Fitzpatrick (d. 1929); Hon. Daniel Joseph Donahoe (d. 1930); Msgr. Hugh T. Henry (d. 1946); and Msgr. Ronald A. Knox (d. 1957).
Second Tune: “Couture” • 887

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Page 469

Sancti Venite, Christi Corpus Sumite (“Approach, ye just, and take”)
Translation: Msgr. Hugh T. Henry
Text only—can be used with any 66 66 Iambic

66 66 Iambic
Page 468

Sancti Venite, Christi Corpus Sumite (“Approach, ye just, and take”)
Translation: Msgr. Hugh T. Henry
Third Tune: “Clermont” • 66 66 Iambic

66 66 Iambic
Page 467

Sancti Venite, Christi Corpus Sumite (“Approach, ye just, and take”)
Translation: Msgr. Hugh T. Henry
Second Tune: “Camcolt” • 66 66 Iambic

66 66 Iambic
Page 466

Sancti Venite, Christi Corpus Sumite (“Approach, ye just, and take”)
Translation: Msgr. Hugh T. Henry
First Tune: “Seán” • 66 66 Iambic

66 66 Iambic
Pages 484-485

Stabat Mater Dolorosa (“Under the World-redeeming Rood”)
Translation: Historic Roman Catholic Translation • 1687AD
Tune: “Bayeux” • 887

This translation was allowed to be printed in London since it appeared during the reign of James II of England, a Catholic. He had converted from Anglicanism secretly in 1667, and refused to take a mandatory oath (1673 “Test Act”) denouncing the doctrine of Transubstantiation, instead choosing to relinquish the post of Lord High Admiral. A devout man, he once said: “If occasion were, I hope God would give me his grace to suffer death for the true Catholic religion as well as banishment.” His brother, who reigned as King of England until 1685, became a Catholic on his deathbed.

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Pages 480-481

Stabat Mater Dolorosa (“At the Cross her station keeping”)
Also included in Latin: “Stábat Máter dolorósa”
Translation: Cento by Fr. Edward Caswall (d. 1878); Very Rev’d Dominic Aylward (d. 1872); Denis Florence MacCarthy (d. 1882); Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth (d. 1884); Aubrey Thomas de Vere (d. 1902); Fr. John Fitzpatrick (d. 1929); Hon. Daniel Joseph Donahoe (d. 1930); Msgr. Hugh T. Henry (d. 1946); and Msgr. Ronald A. Knox (d. 1957).
First Tune: “Stabat Mater” • 887

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Page 116

Ave Maris Stella (“Hail, Star of ocean, hail”)
Translation: Bishop Edward G. Bagshawe
Tune: “Seán” • 66 66 Iambic

66 66 Iambic
Page 85

Auctor Beate Saeculi (“Blest Author of the world”)
Translation: Msgr. Hugh T. Henry
Text only—can be used with any 66 66 Iambic

66 66 Iambic
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